 
Goon Show Series: 8 Cast includes Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and Wallace Greenslade as announcer. Episode Details: 01: Spon First broadcast: 30/09/1957 Recorded: 29/09/1957 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: Without Harry Secombe, with Dick Emery. 02: The Junk Affair First broadcast: 07/10/1957 Recorded: 06/10/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: Not coherently announced. 03: The Burning Embassy First broadcast: 14/10/1957 Recorded: 13/10/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: Not coherently announced. 04: The Great Regents Park Swim First broadcast: 21/10/1957 Recorded: 20/10/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Charles Chilton 05: The Treasure in the Tower First broadcast: 28/10/1957 Recorded: 27/10/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: Not coherently announced. 06: The Space Age First broadcast: 04/11/1957 Recorded: 03/11/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer 07: The Red Fort First broadcast: 11/11/1957 Recorded: 10/11/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer Notes: Announced as 'A Tale of India'. 08: The Missing Battleship First broadcast: 18/11/1957 Recorded: 17/11/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer Notes: Without Max Geldray. Not coherently announced. 09: The Policy First broadcast: 25/11/1957 Recorded: 24/11/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer 10: King Solomon's Mines First broadcast: 02/12/1957 Recorded: 01/12/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer 11: The Stolen Postman First broadcast: 09/12/1957 Recorded: 08/12/1957 Author: Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer 12: The Great British Revolution First broadcast: 16/12/1957 Recorded: 15/12/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer 13: The Plasticine Man First broadcast: 23/12/1957 Recorded: 22/12/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer Notes: Without Ray Ellington. 14: African Incident First broadcast: 30/12/1957 Recorded: 29/12/1957 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Roy Speer Notes: Not coherently announced. With Cecile Chevreau. 15: The Thing on the Mountain First broadcast: 06/01/1958 Recorded: 05/01/1958 Author: Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire Producer: Roy Speer 16: The String Robberies First broadcast: 13/01/1958 Recorded: 12/01/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: Roy Speer Notes: With George Chisholm. Announced as 'The Great String Robberies'. 17: The Moriarty Murder Mystery First broadcast: 20/01/1958 Recorded: 19/01/1958 Author: Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire Producer: Charles Chilton 18: The Curse of Frankenstein First broadcast: 27/01/1958 Recorded: 19/01/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: Without Ray Ellington, with George Chisholm. Announced as 'The Curse of Frankenstein - BLAST!' and then continues as a story entitled 'My Heart's in the Highlands'. 19: The White Neddie Trade First broadcast: 03/02/1958 Recorded: 02/02/1958 Author: Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire Producer: Charles Chilton 20: Ten Snowballs that Shook the World First broadcast: 10/02/1958 Recorded: 09/02/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: Charles Chilton 21: The Man Who Never Was First broadcast: 17/02/1958 Recorded: 16/02/1958 Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: This script is a re-working of episode 27 and of the 6th series, itself an expanded version from part of episode 20 of the 3rd series. 22: World War One First broadcast: 24/02/1958 Recorded: 23/02/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: The script is titled '_____!' as are the BBC Transcription Services issues: the announced title is written as '_____!' and pronounced as a faint murmur - Milligan's interpretation of illegible writing on a faded manuscript. 23: The Spon Plague First broadcast: 03/03/1958 Recorded: 02/03/1958 Author: Spike Milligan and John Antrobus Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: With George Chisholm. Announced as 'The Great Spon Plague'. 24: Tiddleywinks First broadcast: 10/03/1958 Recorded: 09/03/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: With John Snagge. Not coherently announced. 25: The Evils of Bushey Spon First broadcast: 17/03/1958 Recorded: 16/03/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: With A. E. Matthews. Inspired by a real-life row A. E. Matthews was having with his local council about a concrete lamp-post they wanted to put outside his house. (There is also a reference to this in the previous show). Mr Matthews appears only in the last five minutes of the show, which are ad-libbed by all concerned owing to Mr Mathews's utter refusal to stick to the plot. 26: The Great Statue Debate First broadcast: 24/03/1958 Recorded: 23/03/1958 Author: Spike Milligan and John Antrobus Producer: Charles Chilton Notes: Not coherently announced.  |
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